Part 3 A:
After listening to all of the audio files of people during the 1930's, I would say that a common characteristic of them is a can do attitude and a drive to survive even in the hardest of times. Like Chris Thorsten, he was an iron worker, and he said that," you aren't an iron worker unless you get killed." Which shows how desperate times must have been, if he was willing to do a job that could kill him. Jim Cole was a butcher at a packing house. From his interview I would say that he was a skilled butcher, but he was discriminated against because he was African American. The "Man at Colonial Park" spent the majority of his interview talking about how God made everything, so at the time, I guess people were still very religious. Elizabeth Miller spent her interview telling a story about the time when she carried a 500 pound pig into the house all by herself. And when she told her husband about it, he literally couldn't believe it. So, sexism was still alive and well in the 30's. Mr. Garavelli was a stone cutter in Vermont, and in his interview he said that many stone cutters he worked with died because of the silica in the stone. He said that he would never, as long as he lived, let his kids work in a stone shed. Just like the other interviewees, he worked hard in an unsavory job to make something of himself. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/thorsten.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/garavel.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/jimcole.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/manpark.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/eliza.html
Part 3 B:
1)The person being interviewed is Crawford Ellis.
2) Well, at the beginning he was a menial laborer in Nicaragua, but he moved his way up to president of an insurance company.
3) Ellis was a white male, and at the time of the interview he was in his 60's.
4) The interview took place in Dallas County, Alabama.
5) The date of this interview is unknown.
6) The interviewer is Mildred Thrash.
The interview of Crawford Ellis was a short synopsis of Ellis' climb to the top. He came from humble beginnings in Selma, Alabama and was put on a boat to Nicaragua when he was 18 years old. He was a menial laborer for a short time and then rose to become a vice president of the company he was working for. Then he opened an insurance company and made himself president.
1) The person being interviewed is Jesse Owens.
2) He was an Olympic medalist, and he has been called the fastest man in the world.
3)Owens was an African American male, and he was at an unknown age during the interview.
4) The interview took place in Macon County, Alabama.
5) The interview took place on April 22, 1939.
6) The interviewer was Rhussus L. Perry.
The interview was mainly about Owens' triumphs at the Olympics and all of the records he beat. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything about his life in Depression times Alabama. To be honest, I picked his article because of his involvment in The Book Thief.
Part 4:
It is impossible to work with my partners, so I am writing the poem we were told to write by myself. That is why it is on my page instead of the group page.
Selma, Alabama.
To an outsider, it may not look like much,
and you would probably drive right by it without giving it a second thought.
But if you have lived here your entire life ,
like me, then you begin to think that there is no world, only Selma.
It is lovely and quaint here, like our Main Street.
Full of stores that everyone has been to a million times.
Nothing ever changing, no one ever leaving.
Selma does have it's wonders though.
Like Elmer's corner store.
You wouldn't know it from looking, but it has a fake front.
Ain't that wonderful?
And our church is a thing of beauty.
It's only an hour walk away from town!
It's in a real pretty part of town, and anybody can come.
Our church doesn't like to leave people out,
they say that's how God says it should be.
If you ever want to come down to Selma, feel free.
But if you do, stay clear of Malcolm Fredricks.
People say he chopped up his wife into little pieces and sold them to the butcher!
So you should probably stay clear of the butcher too.
See you soon!
Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film
Image, Source: digital file from T01 duplicate negative
After listening to all of the audio files of people during the 1930's, I would say that a common characteristic of them is a can do attitude and a drive to survive even in the hardest of times. Like Chris Thorsten, he was an iron worker, and he said that," you aren't an iron worker unless you get killed." Which shows how desperate times must have been, if he was willing to do a job that could kill him. Jim Cole was a butcher at a packing house. From his interview I would say that he was a skilled butcher, but he was discriminated against because he was African American. The "Man at Colonial Park" spent the majority of his interview talking about how God made everything, so at the time, I guess people were still very religious. Elizabeth Miller spent her interview telling a story about the time when she carried a 500 pound pig into the house all by herself. And when she told her husband about it, he literally couldn't believe it. So, sexism was still alive and well in the 30's. Mr. Garavelli was a stone cutter in Vermont, and in his interview he said that many stone cutters he worked with died because of the silica in the stone. He said that he would never, as long as he lived, let his kids work in a stone shed. Just like the other interviewees, he worked hard in an unsavory job to make something of himself.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/thorsten.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/garavel.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/jimcole.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/manpark.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/eliza.html
Part 3 B:
1)The person being interviewed is Crawford Ellis.
2) Well, at the beginning he was a menial laborer in Nicaragua, but he moved his way up to president of an insurance company.
3) Ellis was a white male, and at the time of the interview he was in his 60's.
4) The interview took place in Dallas County, Alabama.
5) The date of this interview is unknown.
6) The interviewer is Mildred Thrash.
The interview of Crawford Ellis was a short synopsis of Ellis' climb to the top. He came from humble beginnings in Selma, Alabama and was put on a boat to Nicaragua when he was 18 years old. He was a menial laborer for a short time and then rose to become a vice president of the company he was working for. Then he opened an insurance company and made himself president.
1) The person being interviewed is Jesse Owens.
2) He was an Olympic medalist, and he has been called the fastest man in the world.
3)Owens was an African American male, and he was at an unknown age during the interview.
4) The interview took place in Macon County, Alabama.
5) The interview took place on April 22, 1939.
6) The interviewer was Rhussus L. Perry.
The interview was mainly about Owens' triumphs at the Olympics and all of the records he beat. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything about his life in Depression times Alabama. To be honest, I picked his article because of his involvment in The Book Thief.
Part 4:
It is impossible to work with my partners, so I am writing the poem we were told to write by myself. That is why it is on my page instead of the group page.
Selma, Alabama.
To an outsider, it may not look like much,
and you would probably drive right by it without giving it a second thought.
But if you have lived here your entire life ,
like me, then you begin to think that there is no world, only Selma.
It is lovely and quaint here, like our Main Street.
Full of stores that everyone has been to a million times.
Nothing ever changing, no one ever leaving.
Selma does have it's wonders though.
Like Elmer's corner store.
You wouldn't know it from looking, but it has a fake front.
Ain't that wonderful?
And our church is a thing of beauty.
It's only an hour walk away from town!
It's in a real pretty part of town, and anybody can come.
Our church doesn't like to leave people out,
they say that's how God says it should be.
If you ever want to come down to Selma, feel free.
But if you do, stay clear of Malcolm Fredricks.
People say he chopped up his wife into little pieces and sold them to the butcher!
So you should probably stay clear of the butcher too.
See you soon!